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Imagine a graph, showing the fluctuation in travel over time. Sudden rises followed by sudden falls will appear in the graph as sharp upward points. These are spikes. The verb "to spike" means to rise and fall suddenly.

(However, I'm not sure that it is correctly used here, where it seems to describe a rise only, without necessarily a following fall.)

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Thanks for your comments, Perpend. I can't find the source text, just have the below sentence! Hope it works!

"These tips should get you home for the holidays with less stress and time to spare. But we’ve saved the biggest holiday travel secret for last: as US air travel spikes, overseas travel plunges and airlines are desperate to fill seats on these flights. Incredibly, at this time of year a flight from New York to Des Moines, Iowa costs about the same, if not less, than a flight from New York to Paris – about $600. So next year, ditch the dysfunctional family get-together, save some dough and carve your dinde à Paris."

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Imagine a graph, showing the fluctuation in travel over time. Sudden rises followed by sudden falls will appear in the graph as sharp upward points. These are spikes. The verb "to spike" means to rise and fall suddenly.

(However, I'm not sure that it is correctly used here, where it seems to describe a rise only, without necessarily a following fall.)

Thanks for your comments, Perpend. I can't find the source text, just have the below sentence! Hope it works!

"These tips should get you home for the holidays with less stress and time to spare. But we’ve saved the biggest holiday travel secret for last: as US air travel spikes, overseas travel plunges and airlines are desperate to fill seats on these flights. Incredibly, at this time of year a flight from New York to Des Moines, Iowa costs about the same, if not less, than a flight from New York to Paris – about $600. So next year, ditch the dysfunctional family get-together, save some dough and carve your dinde à Paris."